Albert William Upton Quotes
Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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I care deeply about the direction of our country.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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You always kind of know she's there, and you know she's capable of playing really well, ... But I think I'm capable of playing just as well.
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What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.
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In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.
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If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
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Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
